After owning a pet rat or two and becoming accustomed to how friendly they are (they will prompt you to scratch them all day long), movies depicting rats as evil seem hilarious. The spell is broken and you know you are watching a bunch of movie animals specialist's trained pets. Hearing people shake with fright from what is possibly an escaped dumbo rat is cracking me up.

Once there was a huge spider in my house and I killed it. The body of it was so huge, like a small hamburger patty. the legs were short and hairy, and the thing ran across the bedroom walls with lightning speed. I sprayed ut with bathroom cleaners. Afterward, I looked up the species online and I felt bad after I realized I'd exterminated someone's pet tarantula.

Cerebral Ballsy:After owning a pet rat or two and becoming accustomed to how friendly they are (they will prompt you to scratch them all day long), movies depicting rats as evil seem hilarious. The spell is broken and you know you are watching a bunch of movie animals specialist's trained pets. Hearing people shake with fright from what is possibly an escaped dumbo rat is cracking me up.

Once there was a huge spider in my house and I killed it. The body of it was so huge, like a small hamburger patty. the legs were short and hairy, and the thing ran across the bedroom walls with lightning speed. I sprayed ut with bathroom cleaners. Afterward, I looked up the species online and I felt bad after I realized I'd exterminated someone's pet tarantula.

Cerebral Ballsy:After owning a pet rat or two and becoming accustomed to how friendly they are (they will prompt you to scratch them all day long), movies depicting rats as evil seem hilarious. The spell is broken and you know you are watching a bunch of movie animals specialist's trained pets. Hearing people shake with fright from what is possibly an escaped dumbo rat is cracking me up.

Feral rats ain't pet rats. They have no problem biting and clawing people & pets, and they're one of the most common rabies vectors; an infected rat is basically the violent tweaker of the rat world. The shot schedule you have to go through after getting bit SUCKS.

Sure a wild fat rat might be docile, but I wouldn't bet on it. I bet most could be tamed though.

FullMetalPanda:Squilax: I am not skilled at these things, but the first pic in that article looks like it would blend almost seamlessly into the classic "Ceiling Cat" picture as an animated .gif, or even this one: